11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice
Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University, Zanzibar, Tanzannia
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Conference Program
Venue: Hon. Aboud Jumbe Mwinyi Lecture Theatre, Zanzibar University
Date/Time Sessions
June 16
1:00-2:00 pm Registration
3:00-6:00 pm Stone Town city walk
6:30 pm Dinner
June 17 Session 1
8:30 – 10:00am - Opening prayer
- Statement of welcoming from the VC of Zanzibar University & welcome VC of Hubert Kairuki Memorial University (HKMU)
- Statement of HKMU’s VC, then welcome the Minister of Health
- Speech of the Minister of Health and opens the Conference.
- Statement of Dr. Nyange Haji, a historian of Zanzibar on culture and heritage
Japhet Jonas Mwanangombe (keynote speaker)
The National Coordinator of Roots & Shoots-Tanzania, the Jane Goodall Institute Tanzania
The Contribution of Plant Nurseries to City Biodiversity: A Case Study of Dar Es Salaam City
Group photo
10:00 – 10:15am Break
11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University | Zanzibar, Tanzania
10:15 – 11:45am
Session 2
Ombeni Swai
School of Architecture Construction Economics and Management, Ardhi University, Tanzania Complementarity of Architecture in Historical Settings: Case of Bagamoyo Old Town, Tanzania
Hafidh Ali Hafidh
Zanzibar University
Impacts of Tourism Development on the Urban Environment and Cultural Heritage. A case of Zanzibar Sustainable City Development and Heritage Preservation
Daudi Simon Chanila
PhD Candidate, MSW, MPA, PGDLMA, BA, ADSW Urban Environment and Juvenile Delinquency in Dar es salaam, Tanzania
11:45am – 1:00pm Lunch (all lunches included during the conference)
Session 3
1:00 – 2:30pm Integrated Rural and Urban Development: China, US and Tanzania
Alex Thomas and Gregory Fulkerson
SUNY Oneonta
Urbanormativity: Reality, Representation, and Everyday Life (Studies in Urban–Rural Dynamics)
Li Zhang
Tongji University
Urban and Rural Development in China
Theresa Kaijage & Rita Minga
Hubert Kairuki Memorial University
Projects pertaining to Cities and Identities as well as Challenges to Diversity and Inclusion: The social work perspective on Environmental Development in Tanzania
2:30 – 2:45pm
2:45 – 4:15pm
June 18
Break
Session 4
Khamis Juma Abdalla
State University of Zanzibar
Deconstructing the Zanzibar Cultural Heritages in the Information Age
Danying Li
A Cultural-aware Approach for Nutrition Education: Experience from Chinese Heritage and Identity through Food And Nutrition (CHIFAN)
Tejshree Rade (online)
P.G. Student of Urban Design Course, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
Rethinking Developmental approach for local cultural clusters: A Case of Mumbai
Session 5
11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University | Zanzibar, Tanzania
8:30 – 10:00am Michelle M. Jacob
University of Oregon
Honoring Indigenous Cultural Teachings to Address and Overcome Diversity and Inclusion Challenges
Mariko Hamaya (online)
Kyoto University
Spiritual Complex of Leicester: Re-organising ‘The Divine’ Through Volunteering After the Pandemic
Yanyu Cui*1, Xiaoming Zhu*2, Jiheng Hu*3 (online)
Tongji University1,2, 3Dongying Banboo Dragonfly Intelligent Tech. CO.,LTD3
Historic Landscape Characters of rural area in The Yellow River Estuary Area Based on Historical Images and Oral History Research (From 1960 to 2018)
Rui Jun Qin (online)
Guangxi University for Nationalities
The symbolic meaning and significance of houses in a rural village in Guangxi China: A cross-generational comparison from architectural sociology perspective 10:00am – 10:15am Break
Session 6
10:15 – 11:45am
Solomon M. Rweyemamu & Herbert Hambati
University of Dar Es Salaam
Processes and Producers of PPPs in Solid Waste Management in MSASANI WARD, Dar Es Salaam Tanzania
Ombeni Swai
Ardhi University
The Rise of Consumerism in Urban Milieu and its Manifestation into Spatial Dynamics: The Case of Mbezi Beach, Mwai-Kibaki Road, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Anupama Bharti
School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal Madhya Pradesh India
Understanding the Social Life through Water
11:45am – 1:00pm
1:00 – 2:30pm
2:30 - 2:45pm
Lunch
Session 7
Prof. Xixia Yu (keynote speaker, online)
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
A Glimpse of African Traditional Time Philosophy: A Study of Non-fiction“The Crocodiles of Yamoussoukro”
Shideng Lu (online)
Guangxi Arts University
Assessment on the Change of Design Strategy of Apartment Building in a Post-pandemic Era
Break
Session 8
2:45 – 4:15pm
Artie Ng (keynote speaker, online)
International Business University
Globalisation and Re-Globalisation: Emerging Roles of a Global Financial Centre
Antony Woon Kei Pang
Rewriting modern lifestyle for sustainability and glocal connection
June 19
8:30 – 10:00 am
Camilus T. Lekule
Ardhi University
Session 9
Understanding Of Urban Concrete Spaces
Important Challenge on Climate Change And Urban Sustainability
Faris Ridzuan (online)
National University of Singapore Diversity Fault Lines or Pluralism as Strength: Tracing Singapore’s Paradigm Shifts in Urban Planning and Spaces
Vaishnavi Malu (online)
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal Imagining Street as an Urban Continuum in Conjunction with The Metro Corridor at the Grade Level
10:00 – 10:15am Break
Session 10
11:00am - 12:00pm
Marcel Kitissou1 & Kpoti Kitissou2 (online)
University of Albany1, SUNY Oneonta2
Waging Peace and Implementing Development at the Periphery of the Sahel
Marcel Kitissou (Editor, online)
Introducing the International Journal of African Studies
Xiaomin Zhang (Managing Editor, online)
Introducing International Journal of Anthropology and Ethnology
School of Planning and Architecture Bhopal Madhya Pradesh India
Title:
Understand the Social Life through Water
Abstract:
The ancient history of the world has witnessed the nourishment of all the civilizations along the waters of rivers, streams, waterfalls, lakes, wetlands, and it was also the cause of destruction too. Through the mythological, cultural, social, physical, and chemical characteristics of water. humans learned the technologies to create societies, educated themselves to generate energy and make their lives easier and better on the planet Earth.
Diverse faces of the water have played significant roles in making humans civilized and has become the social platform to perform religious rituals, cultural activities and most importantly water has encouraged and forced women to perform social gatherings while fetching the water from the water resources. Since then, water has been an influential element of human’s social lives. Ghats, Kunds, Wells, Baolis, Pokhars, Ponds, Handpumps, Wetlands are the cultural and social identities of society. articulating the eternal relationship of water and humans. These cultural and social identities have been experiencing celebrations, contentment. gratitude, and hostility from society to society for ages.
The aim of the paper is to study these cultural and social identities (spaces) through various paradigms of rural India and to encourage them to be part of the present urban landscape in shaping up the contemporary cities
Key Words:
Baolis, Cultural and Social Identities, Urban Landscape, Contemporary Cities
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Anupama Bharti
11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University | Zanzibar, Tanzania
Antony Woon Kei PANG
Title:
Rewriting modern LIFE STYLE for sustainability and glocal connection.
Abstract:
One of the Post-COVID concern is how to reconnecting people globally and locally across generation, abilities and ethnics. People has strong reflection in the concept of share values, sustainability and glocal reconnection. However, there is already grand narration on how people should live, style, persuade in life and tourism. This presentation is about how we blend in Entrepreneurship; Intrapreneurhsip, digitalization concepts via storytelling and case studies approach to review and understand how people cross different geographical, social and abilities to re-define and co-create a new way of understanding in social sustainability. Cases will cover contexts like social traveling, responsible consumption and alternate life styling to create sustainable social good in Asia.
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The Dots consultancy company, founder and director
Artie Ng [Keynote]
International Business University, Canada
Title:
Globalisation and Re-Globalisation: Emerging Roles of a Global Financial Centre
Abstract
Global Financial Centres (GFCs) have been viewed as distinct forces for the international capital markets to provide innovative financial services to facilitate economic development and wealth creation around the world. Over the past decades, these GFCs have been adopting similar in terms of regulatory standards and approaches. GFCs have continued to reinvent to justify their roles through “innovations” that at times could lead to unprecedented financial risks and even crises across the borders, such as the more recent fintech fiascos. This exploratory paper aims to articulate the escalated international interests in green finance as a legitimate initiative for global sustainability among the GFCs’ under the emergence of the world’s post-COVIC 19 era. Some critical analyses are enunciated with reference to the trajectory of past global financial crises in seeking opportune capital returns contrary to sustainability.
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11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University | Zanzibar, Tanzania
Camilus T. Lekule Managing Director+ Afri-Arch Associates; Former Senior Lecturer - Ardhi University, School of Architecture and Design, Tanzania
Title:
Understanding Of Urban Concrete Spaces
Important Challenge On Climate Change And Urban Sustainability
Abstract:
In the everyday life we come across many external environments where people act individually or in groups. In some cases, groups of people came to play games like chase (bao) in urban spaces. Others engage in hot arguments on Football issues. In other cases, several economic activities are seen taking place in multitude urban places. A simple observation in various places in cities indicate that these are spaces endowed with social values on constituted or improvised activities. These are the concrete spaces of everyday life that professionals pay minimum attention to. Children grow up in these concrete places of human settlements. Young people learn life ingredients in the concrete places. Wisdom from the older generations is discussed and discharged in the concrete spaces. Meaningful meetings and congregations occur in these places. How are concrete spaces are understood by communities is the main question in this paper and presentation.
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Danying Li
RDN, CDN, MS, Project Lead, Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition Food Cooperation
Title:
A Cultural-aware Approach for Nutrition Education: Experience from Chinese Heritage and Identity through Food And Nutrition (CHIFAN)
Abstract:
Childhood obesity is a critical public issue in the US. Children of immigrants have a higher risk of obesity than non-immigrants. Despite the slender Asian stereotype, nearly one-third of 6-to-11year-old Chinese American children were reported to be overweight or obese. In addition, Chinese immigrants living in Western countries have a higher risk of developing chronic diseases throughout their acculturation, higher than that of mainland Chinese who remain in China. School is the link between children’s families and society, and it is usually the children’s first experience facing acculturation. Although multiple factors may take part in the immigrants’ risk for being overweight/obese based on the Ecological risk model of childhood obesity in Chinese immigrant children, children’s institutional experiences can play essential roles in their dietary preferences, which can also modify parent-child food-related interactions and family dietary intake. Chinese Heritage and Identity through Food And Nutrition (CHIFAN) is a nutrition education project embedded in Food Cooperative, a non-profit organization founded by the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition’s alums. CHIFAN has been working with local Chinese American initiatives to provide culturally appropriate nutrition lessons to students aged 4-8. This paper will share our experience with CHIFAN, including the creation process, the impact on the community, and the challenges.
Keywords: Nutrition, Education, Obesity, Cultural Diversity, Immigrant
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11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University | Zanzibar, Tanzania
Daudi Simon Chanila PhD Candidate, MSW, MPA, PGDLMA, BA, ADSW
Title:
Urban Environment and Juvenile Delinquency in Dar es salaam, Tanzania
Abstract:
Juvenile delinquency is a universal phenomenon in which youth engage in deviant types of behaviour. In this paper, an attempt is made to show how the urban environment contributes to juvenile delinquency in Dar es salaam, Tanzania, and it gives recommendations on how to alleviate the situation. Methodologically this study employed a desk review method, of which various documents related to the urban environment and juvenile delinquency were reviewed. The major findings were: there is a close correlation between urban arrangement and juvenile delinquency, denoted through income disparities in dwelling places where unauthorized activities meet with disapproval and sanctions from authorities; a limited sense of responsibility amongst parents; changing social relationships; abandoning traditional values; failure to accommodate huge populations which give rise to squatter and slum settlements; technological advancements ( mass media and internet); city planning that did not take into account playing grounds and recreation spaces for juveniles. This study concludes that the undue urban environment has impacted on the youth’s behaviour, plunging them into juvenile delinquency. The study recommends that the government and other actors should strive to minimize abject poverty and unemployment through loans to the actual deserving; cities be well arranged; they should set out playgrounds and recreation activities for juveniles; and should create awareness to parents on responsible parenthood.
Keywords: urban, environment, urban environment, juvenile, juvenile delinquency
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Faris Ridzuan
Academic Tutor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore; General Paper and IP English Teaching and Curriculum Specialist, illum.e
Title:
Diversity Fault Lines or Pluralism as Strength: Tracing Singapore’s Paradigm Shifts in Urban Planning and Spaces
Abstract:
Singapore has made huge developmental leaps in a short frame of time, partly due to its urban planning. The visionaries of the founders of independent Singapore created Singapore as a city in a garden, avoiding rampant ghettoisation, building water, electricity and other essential networks, and other essentials to shape Singapore’s structural planning and constant reinvention and improvement to allow the small nation state to shift from survival to thriving. Singapore is also known to have managed its racial/ethnic and religious diversity through urban planning. Singapore’s public housing model has the Ethnic Integration Policy, to reduce ethnic segregation and enclaves. Singapore has also been described by Pew Research Centre as the most religiously diverse nation in the world, and urban planning for religious places are deliberate. The paradigm is that race and religion are fault lines to be managed, lest the previous racial riots happen again. The Institute of Policy Studies in Singapore published research elucidating more fault lines such as xenophobia and LGBTQ plus issues, in a nation dependent on migrant labour and on international markets, and in the context of rising polarised politics along sexuality, culminating in the contestations around the repeal of a law that criminalised homosexual behaviour amongst men. Through an analysis of civil society organisations that champion dialogues both in person and online that facilitate dialogues on diversity, the geographical presence of minoritised groups in advocacy spaces regulated by the government such as Pink Dot which champions the socioaspirational space and grievances of sexual minorities, I argue that the shift from the dominant paradigm in planning Singapore as a diverse city through management of fault lines, are being challenged to view diversity as positive engagement with differences and similarities through dialogue and the promotion of pluralism more as a source of strength rather than a potential liability, and explain the structural, discursive and systemic shifts that enable these contestations to survive, and how it may thrive in the hegemonic contestations of urban planning of diversity.
Keywords: diversity; urban planning: Singapore; pluralism
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11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University | Zanzibar, Tanzania
Title:
Impacts of Tourism Development on the Urban Environment and Cultural Heritage. A case of Zanzibar Sustainable City Development and Heritage Preservation
Abstract:
The study aimed to examine tourism development on the urban environment and cultural heritage in Zanzibar, with the end goal of recommending methods for environmentally responsible urban development and heritage preservation. The study was conducted using a mixed-methods approach, which included both a quantitative survey and qualitative interviews with various stakeholders in the tourism industry and Zanzibar Environmental Management Authority. The descriptive research design was used to analyze the cause and effect of the specific objectives of the study. According to the findings, Zanzibar’s urban environment and cultural heritage have suffered as a direct result of the island’s rapidly expanding tourism industry. Also, the findings revealed that Zanzibar’s urban environment and cultural heritage have experienced both positive and negative effects as a direct result of the rapid growth of tourism on the island. However, the research suggested that there is a need to have tourism and hospitality management strategies that will be implemented in Zanzibar for sustainable city development and the preservation of heritage can help to lessen the severity of these adverse effects.
Keywords: Tourism, development, Urban environment
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Hafidh Ali Hafidh Zanzibar University, Tanzania
Japhet Jonas Mwanangombe [keynote]
The National Coordinator of Roots & Shoots-Tanzania, the Jane Goodall Institute Tanzania
Title:
The Contribution Of Plant Nurseries To City Biodiversity: A Case Study Of Dar Es Salaam City
Abstract:
The study was conducted in order to assess the contribution of plant nurseries to species, genetic, and ecosystem diversity in the fast-growing commercial city of Dar es Salaam. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were employed across 50 plant nurseries from 5 municipalities in Dar es Salaam. The study sample size was 121 respondents (Nursery owners and Attendants) based on nursery ownership, age, gender, and education level. Data collection instruments included field observations, structured and unstructured interviews, and questionnaires. The study employed descriptive and inferential statistics for analysis and included the use of ANOVA tests. Species diversity was measured using the Shannon-Weiner Index formula. Results showed that five types of nurseries exist in the study area, these nurseries included fruits, vegetables, ornamental, tree nurseries and mixed nurseries. Species diversity was as higher as 4.91 for 166,100 total abundance counted from 77 species richness, which was identified from 42 genera and 23 families. Some IUCN`s Critically Endangered Species were also identified by making this area important for Biodiversity conservation.
The key influencing factors for the distribution of plants nurseries in the city were both environmental, economic, and socio-cultural factors, where environmental factors included suitable soils, access to sources of water, types, and sizes of nurseries, application, and access to the use of fertilizers and Plants Boosters in the nurseries. The study found five different roles plant nurseries play in city biodiversity. These roles included productive functions, carriages, regulatory, ecological, social-cultural, education, and research functions, which resulted in both food production, shade, recreation, fresh air, ornamentals, furniture, fuelwood energy, biomass, habitats heterogeneity, connectivity, and presence of invasive alien species.
Keywords: Plant nurseries; Biodiversity; Environmental; City biodiversity; Economical; socio-cultural
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11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University | Zanzibar, Tanzania
Khamis Juma Abdalla State University of Zanzibar, Lecturer Department of Communication and Media Studies
Title: Deconstructing the Zanzibar Cultural Heritages in the Information Age
Abstract:
Media communication plays significant role on converging local communities in the aspects of commence, cultural exchanges, polity, ideas as well as security concerns. The streams of cultural products and services are vibrant around the world through mass media with strategic endeavors like advertising and other journalistic genres. As long as the social moments and physical interaction surfacing by media technological mechanism, the social heritages certainly dissolve in the information society, commencing Media imperialism outset which consolidate the partial state identity, through films and music for the sake of so-called modernization in the shadow of westernization. Thus, this paper presents a descriptive overview on the cultural heritage vis-à-vis media Information flows in view of social word of Zanzibar. Thanks to the trivial uses of Interpersonal communication as well as traditional means such as Tutu, Messenger (Jumbe), Storytelling, Upatu (gongs), Kanga message, Yelling and others, the emerging social settings and cultural appliances inspire categorical uniformity in the networked social world. Consequently the social sphere is fashioned keen on abundant diversity, divisions and discontinuity of the customs and norms. Therefore, this paper examines the social transition by virtual application as a constant variable liberalizes into polarization of local community in this information age.
Key Words: globalization, Zanzibar cultural Heritage, Cultural Imperialism, Media Industry, Social Life, information age.
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Li Zhang and Mingjun Yang Tongji University
Title:
Space Production of Industrial Towns in China with The View of Urban-Rural Dualistic Land Ownership Institution
Abstract:
Land ownership institution is a basic institution for a country which influences national social and space system. The theory of space production advanced by sociologists such us Lefevvre etc. explains how urban space is produced by state intervening, class struggle and social movement in the background of capitalism and private ownership of land institution. But, China’s state is socialism with Chinese characteristics and China’s land ownership is an uran-rural, or state-collective, dualistic system which is very different from that in western countries where most land is owned privately. The research question is how to explain the space production in this socialism and dualistic land ownership institution.
The developed industry towns in China experienced the opening reform and transition from planned economy to market economy. Especially, those towns land ownership is the mixing of state and private. It shapes a best research sample to conclude space production in China including its characteristics and its mechanisms. Field works and historic tracing, remote image recognizing are employed to be the main methods and 18 developed industry towns are investigated in 2020. The theoretic framework with for factors including national governance, community right economic transition and land development operating is put forward to explain the space production in China with socialism and urban-rural dualistic land ownership institution.
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11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University | Zanzibar, Tanzania
Mariko Hamaya Ph.D., Affiliated Researcher, Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
Title:
Spiritual Complex of Leicester: Re-organising ‘The Divine’ Through Volunteering After the Pandemic
Abstract:
Leicester is one of the most outstanding cities of migrants in the UK, particularly after many Indian people, mainly of Gujarati origin, were forced to move from Uganda and other East African countries in the 1970s. The South Asian diasporas have established religious centres such as Hindu temples, Jain temples, Sikh gurudwaras, and Islam masjids, most of which were related to their own caste communities. On the other hand, what should be noticed is that new spiritual organisations beyond the socio-religious boundaries are getting popular and influential as so-called mindfulness movements have become a worldwide trend while the generation and ethnicity of migrants have changed. This paper will examine case studies of a few spiritual organisations focusing on volunteering, based on the data I collected during the fieldwork between April and November 2022. Volunteering, which is termed sevā in Hindi and Gujarati and originally means spiritual service, is essential to manage the organisation, while volunteers can connect to the organisation, other volunteers, and the deity both socially and spiritually. This paper will show how the South Asian diasporas are trying to re-organise ‘the divine’ and its network beyond the religion-based communities after the pandemic affected their community activities.
Keywords: migration, South Asian diaspora, spiritual organisation, volunteering
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Michelle M. Jacob
PhD (Yakama Nation), Professor of Indigenous Studies, Department of Education Studies, University of Oregon, USA
Title:
Honoring Indigenous Cultural Teachings to Address and Overcome Diversity and Inclusion Challenges
Abstract:
COVID-19 and the ongoing pandemic presents tremendous loss and multiple forms of stress for all peoples, and most particularly for marginalized groups who continue to bear a disproportionate burden in the “new normal”. This paper discusses challenges faced by graduate students and faculty who are working at the margins of U.S. and Canadian academies. Using an intersectional approach, the case study describes groups of faculty and graduate students who are pursuing their work as academic writers in online spaces. The groups, gathered as part of The Auntie Way Writing Retreat developed by Yakama scholar Michelle Jacob, honor and affirm the importance of Indigenous research methodologies, and center the values of respect, relationship, representation, relevance, responsibility, and reciprocity, described by Tsosie et al’s (2022) article, “The Six Rs of Indigenous Research.”
Key findings include:
1) Online spaces can serve as important points of connection, particularly for Indigenous and other scholars who are isolated at their home institutions, 2) Collectivist approaches that celebrate individuals achieving their goals benefits the entire group, and 3) Using Indigenous methodologies can help students and faculty feel they belong in the academy. These findings indicate the potential honoring Indigenous teachings has for overcoming diversity and inclusion challenges.
Keywords: Indigenous research methodologies, Decolonization, Diversity and inclusion, Social change
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11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University | Zanzibar, Tanzania
Ombeni Swai
Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture, School of Architecture Construction Economics and Management, Ardhi University, Tanzania
Title: COMPLEMENTARITY OF ARCHITECTURE IN HISTORICAL SETTINGS: Case of Bagamoyo Old Town, Tanzania
Abstract:
This paper investigates the concept of architectural complementarity in the historical buildings in Bagamoyo’s old town. It explores the existing architectural building artifacts from various styles covering different civilizations including, natives, Swahili, Arabic, Indian, European, modernism, and contemporary, which have transcended Bagamoyo to date. It further explores the concept of complementarity with the new architectural development in the same place. Descriptive and graphical methods of analysis are applied to construct the main discourse of the study. The following are the findings: The concept of architectural complementarity is ambiguous, and it is built on two schools of thought: those who value architectural complementarity by preserving the historical status quo of the urban fabric and those who consider achieving complementarity by introducing modernity (new buildings) into the historical settings or buildings. Thus, the concept depends on a variety of elements, including culture, materials, design approach, style, building techniques, context, economy, environment, and society, as well as how these elements are grouped to fit in the surrounding environment, which necessitates the need to comprehend the architectural styles of old buildings to improve the design of new buildings introduced historical fabric. To guide development in historical contexts, collaborative policy formation amongst stakeholders is of paramount importance.
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Ombeni Swai
PhD. Senior Lecturer/Urban Designer- Department of Architecture, Ardhi University, Tanzania
Title:
The Rise of Consumerism in Urban Milieu and its Manifestation into Spatial Dynamics: The Case of Mbezi Beach, Mwai-Kibaki Road, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Abstract:
The study sheds light on the phenomenon of consumerism and its impact on the spatial, economic, social, and environmental aspects of residential areas along Mwai Kibaki Road, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Data were collected through interviews, questionnaires, and field observation. Information on the rise of consumerism is analyzed using a combination of descriptive and graphical methods. The findings are summarized hereunder: The introduction of tarmac roads along the study area attracted more residents to the neighborhood, which increased consumer demand. The rise of consumerism transformed the apartments that existed at the time into various types of consumer stores. The rise of the consumer class in urban environments has socio-spatial, socio-physical, and environmental impacts, a phenomenon that needs to be controlled to manage the adverse effects (garbage management, noise, and high traffic) associated with consumer behavior. Consumerism has positively improved the design of buildings, infrastructure, retail spaces, green spaces, sidewalks, and the entire cityscape. The study recommends that the City Planning Act, as provided in Cap. 355, is flawed and does not specifically address the allocation of residential and commercial space for new developments that may offer shopping in residential neighborhoods. The study recommends the need to regulate the establishment of commercial spaces in residential areas.
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11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University | Zanzibar, Tanzania
Ruijun Qin
Guangxi University for Nationalities
Title:
The symbolic meaning and significance of houses in a rural village in Guangxi China: A cross-generational comparison from architectural sociology perspective
Abstract
Although a home and a house carry a prominent symbol in people’s heart, the study of the psychological significance of the houses in rural settings lacks the emic perspective of architectural sociology. It is important to examine the symbolism of rural housing from the dimensions of cognition, emotion, and action of the villagers, beginning with the theory of architecture and identity. Using Nalu Village in China as an example, this paper explores villagers’ perceptions of houses, which they call home, across-generations with an ethnographic approach. Systemic observations of the houses in the village were conducted. A total of 30 in-depth interviews, 10 villagers in each of three generations were carried out. The study forces on how they construct the meanings and significance of the houses along their experiences in rapid political, economic, social and cultural changes taken place in the last 30 years of development in China. In particular, this study seeks answers on how do people of different generations build or rely on houses from different historical periods to help them overcome the challenges posed by social transformation. The findings of this study extend our understanding of the fluid and dynamic construction of place and home identity from one of the most important basic human needs, yet symbolic significance of a house and a home.
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Japhet Jonas Mwanangombe [keynote]
Title:
Assessment on the Change of Design Strategy of Apartment Building in a Post-pandemic Era
Abstract:
The outbreak of the pandemic has significantly impacted the design of apartment housing. The main focus is to explore the sustainable design strategy that should be taken for apartment- style housing in the post-pandemic era in terms of media, sensory, and action elements, and to analyze the impact of these measures on the three pillars of sustainability - environment, society, and economy. The study analyzed cases of apartment building and comparative analysis to compare the design measures before and after the pandemic in the cases. The study shows that while these measures mainly affect the environmental and social aspects of sustainability, some aspects of old buildings remain difficult to adjust. The existing standards of new building design need to be adjusted to make necessary changes. Through analysis, it is believed that although the original green building system provides a good foundation for the adjustment of housing in the post-pandemic era, residential design should still provide a more reliable framework for possible future epidemic defense.
Keywords: Past-pandemic era; apartment building design;sustainable design ; green building technology
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The National Coordinator of Roots & Shoots-Tanzania, the Jane Goodall Institute Tanzania
11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University | Zanzibar, Tanzania
Khamis Juma Abdalla State University of Zanzibar, Lecturer Department of Communication and Media Studies
Title:
Processes and Producers of PPPs in Solid Waste Management in MSASANI WARD, Dar Es Salaam Tanzania
Abstract:
This study examined the role of public-private partnership (PPPs) in solid waste management in Msasani ward, Kinondoni Municipality, Dar es Salaam Region. Specifically, it analyses the PPPs processes and procedures pertaining to solid waste management. A mixed research design was employed in collecting the data analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. Quantitative data were collected by means of a questionnaire while qualitative data were collected through interviews, focus group discussion, document review and field observation, which were analysed using descriptive\7e statistics and thematically respectively.
The findings revealed that, solid waste used to be disposed of directly in the environment before the PPPs initiatives started, but the environment became clean and the community was satisfied with the work done following the PPP’s intervention. However, there is clear evidence that in some streets PPPs’ processes and procedures failed to bring community into action as PPPs being a new form of privatization in solid waste services. The current PPPs processes and procedures are top down procedures, which makes PPPs look like a government project, and not the community’s own project. There a number of factors influencing the performance of PPPs in the area. These factors are affordable tools, technology, community participation, awareness creation and the presence of good infrastructure at the waste collection points.
Generally, the findings shows community satisfaction with the work done by PPPs in solid waste management. This could be useful to policymakers for future environmental conservation programmes in Msasani Ward for the betterment of local communities.
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Tejshree Rade
P.G. Student of Urban Design Course, School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
Title:
Rethinking Developmental approach for local cultural clusters: A Case of Mumbai
Abstract:
The cities are pressured to market an ‘Image of the city’ to increase social and economic vitality on the global platform. The New Urbanism movement developed a thematic fragment approach in large suburban subdivision, where migration fuelled creative capital of the cities, creating a concept of Fragmented Metropolis.
Cities have several ‘Clusters’ with their subaltern identities which, with their local traditions, symbols and role of social cohesion, invoke a sense of place in the complex global world act as a physical manifestation of localization while fuelling the creative and innovative capacity of the city along with cultural vibrancy and diversity that enhances the economic prosperity of the entire city. But in fragmented megapolitan cities like Mumbai in developing countries, the global platform has generated unique identities which requires cultural adaptation; thus the creation or strengthening of the local identity and preserving socio-cultural diversity for economic materialization raises questions around politics of ‘Neighbourhoods’ right to branding’ and it further evolves into ‘right to the city’.
This study looks at how branding of localized identity of one of such clusters in Bandra (Mumbai) potentially improve the identity of the overall city while battling the urban political question of developing an integrated approach towards such clusters within the overall urban development of the city.
Keywords: Urban Identity, Urban Branding, Cultural clusters, Developmental Approach
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11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University | Zanzibar, Tanzania
Theresa J Kaijage & Rita Minga
Title:
Projects pertaining to Cities and Identities as well as Challenges to Diversity and Inclusion: The social work perspective on Environmental Development in Tanzania
Abstract:
Environment may mean livelihood and lifestyle while development could mean people exercising their right to utilize the environment to better the life of all everyone. Issues of Diversity, Equity, Inclusiveness, and Belongingness are part and parcel of the identity of all. There may be similarities in our ethnic, kinship, and indigenous affiliations, but diversity exists even in those identities; and we equitably attempt sharing available resources materially, emotionally, and spiritually, in indigenous communities. Everyone feels included in the web of connectedness that tie one kin to another. There is belongingness at family, village, and community levels.
The social work ethical values of Social Justice, Dignity and Worth a Person, and the Importance of Human Relationships are guaranteed in indigenous communities. Equitable distribution of wealth and power may be challenging, but social justice at households and clan levels exist; so, does Informed Consent and Confidentiality. Information from kinfolks is shared. Representational democracy is assumed in indigenous governance.
The power structures that govern development projects on Global, Local Space and Social Life today, diversity, equity, inclusion, and belongingness, hardly originate at local level, or include representation of indigenous authorities. Bottom-up decision-making give in to down-stream management and top-down project planning and implementation. Attempts towards mitigation strategies in project implementation are underway. Anticipation of unintended consequences when designing development programs in Sub-Saharan African may prevent blessings in extractive mineral resources from being a curse. Tanzania, especially Zanzibar, is minimizing risk when planning for the Blue Economy in ways to be examined.
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Vaishnavi Malu
School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal, India
Title:
Imagining Street as an Urban Continuum in Conjunction with The Metro Corridor at the Grade Level
Abstract:
Urban transformation as a result of urbanization and internationalization has changed our cities and its public spaces. The public spaces of 21st century are fragmented, inaccessible, or privately owned as a result of changes in their function and spatial structure. The increasing mobility of contemporary society has challenged the notion of public place. The inhabitants must now travel to specific destinations to find space for public life. In a time when the so-called public space in cities such as parks, gardens, plazas, waterfronts, malls, etc. are transforming into a privatized pseudo-public realm, one of the most universal public spaces, ‘streets’ is yet overlooked.
“Streets and their sidewalks, the main public spaces of a city, are its most vital organs.”-Jane Jacobs.
Throughout the centuries, street has evolved in terms of its role and design. It was designed for pedestrians and tailored to their needs such as marketplace, town meetings, and military parades. The improvements in technology and social organization resulted in streets being main thoroughfare for vehicles and with shared mobility systems like the metro being introduced, attention to infrastructure development has sidelined the pedestrians who are no longer the main users. This change in transportation has affected the essence of street as public space.
In Indian cities, vehicular circulation has become the primary focus for street design and public transportation systems have failed because ridership was lower than anticipated, due to poor lastmile connectivity. Cities have been affected by congestion and segregation as a result of reducing streets to transit networks, which has reduced spaces for public life.
The intent is to understand the role of streets as public spaces with the advancement in mobility networks and the missing social life along sanitized streets of the city. The thesis will argue how the street as a public space can be developed at street level while the metro intervenes smoothly in our mobility network to provide a healthy user experience and rethink street as a play to stay.
Keywords: Mobility, Streets, Public Life, Continuum
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11th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Sustainable “Glocal” Space and Social Life
June 16 - 19, 2023
Zanzibar University | Zanzibar, Tanzania
Yu, Xixia [Keynote]
University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
Title:
A Glimpse of African Traditional Time Philosophy
– A Study of Non-fiction “The Crocodiles of Yamoussoukro”
Abstract:
Naipaul’s journal to Côte d’Ivoire, in The Crocodile of Yamoussoukro, focuses on African unique philosophy of time and the values of life derived from it. African treat “ at present” as the most important time dimension for existence, embodying their intelligent use of time, and this shows a unique landscape for African national identity, and constitutes an inexhaustible source of vitality in contemporary Africa. Africans’ dialectical approach to the certainty and uncertainty of the time dimension of “future” prompts them to emphasize on the happiness of the time dimension of “at present” and build up a complete spiritual world, live in harmony with nature and others. This non-fiction expresses Naipaul’s concern for the “special knowledge and spirit” of contemporary Africa, objectively reflecting his critical attitude towards modern Western civilization and his awareness of the reconstruction of postcolonial discourse systems.
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Yanyu Cui*1, Xiaoming Zhu*2, Jiheng Hu*3
*1 PhD students, College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China;
*2Professor, College of Architecture & Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai, China;
*3Dongying Banboo Dragonfly Intelligent Tech. CO.,LTD , Shandong Province, China
Title:
Historic Landscape Characters of rural area in The Yellow River Estuary Area Based on Historical Images and Oral History Research (From 1960 to 2018)
Abstract:
Landscape is the carrier of local historical information. Changes in factors such as climate, topography, resources and population have shaped the changes and layers of urban and rural historical landscapes.
The Britain and the United States have established historic geographical information systems(HGIS) of their own. England formed Historic Landscape Characterisation(HLC) research method based on historic maps. Historic maps overlap in GIS is used as a basic method of historic landscape characters. However, Chinese historic maps of rural areas are mostly drawn by non-scientific methods, and the geographical information of micro-scale space is lacking. What technical means can be used in ordinary areas to describe changes in the landscape? Lexical systems with local characteristics and quantitative methods at fine spatial scales are the keys to solving this problem. In this study, a rural area in the Yellow River estuary was used as a sample to practice this technical method.
The Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation. Historically, the Estuary Area was a reclamation area during the Anti-Japanese War, an irrigation area for diverting the Yellow River, an oilfield mining area, and a biodiversity conservation area of global significance.
Based on landscape character theory and methodology, this study uses the rural space of between 1960s and 2018 as a research sample, combining historic maps, historical satellite imagery, airborne LiDAR scans and oral history methods to create GIS maps of historic character types and construct a method for identifying and quantifying historic landscape characters at the microscopic scale.
The research results are based on a database of landscape character types and support the visualisation and analysis of character types over time. The results can be used to study the patterns of change in areas under natural and habitat pressures, and can also be used for valuable assessment by decision makers in the area, and can be linked to webGIS to support public participation in decision-making.
Keywords: The Yellow River Estuary, Historic Landscape Character, Historical maps and images, Oral history research, GIS
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1st Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice
June 1, 2010 Huangpu District, Shanghai, China
2nd Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice
April 1, 2011 SUNY College at Oneonta, Oneonta, New York, USA
3rd Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Quality City: The Challenges of Developing Smaller Cities
June 4-7, 2012 Cixi, Zhejiang, China
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4th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice City Development, Preservation, and Hospitality
June 13-15, 2013
Tongli Town, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
5th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice City Development in Its Natural and Built Environment
June 16-18, 2014
Athinais, Athens, Greece
6th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Projects in Cities and Identities
June 6-11, 2015
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
University of Macau, Macau
7th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Life Course & The City
June 15-17, 2016
Sanya University & Sanya Vanke Forest Breeze Resort, Sanya, Hainan, China
While 4C5M Studio’s 7th conference accepts papers on any topic that relates to urban space and social life, this year’s theme focuses on life course and aging in the context of built environment in both urban and rural settings. World Health Organzation (WHO) has been advocating for global age-friendly cities since 2007. This conference welcomes papers to examine how cities in both developing and developed world fair in this unprecedented challenge. We encourage multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches to study life course and aging since aging does not start at 60 or 65. Life Course & the City aims at investigating the strong relationship between the quality of life for all ages and the quality of the city.
Why Hainan Island? As always, our conference chooses a venue/ city that suits the theme best. Sanya is a beautiful city in Hainan Island. It is famous for its tropical climate and natural environment with spectacular sandy beaches. The island attracts international tourists and entertains “snow geese” in colder areas of China who spend the winter in this Hawaii like island. An exploratory tour of the city and facilities related to older population will be included in the conference.
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8th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Transforming Urbanity: People and Cities on the Move
June 9 - June 12, 2017
Kuala Lumpur and Penang (George Town Heritage, UNESCO), Malaysia
This conference seeks to illuminate and explore research and expressions of human mobility especially as related to cultural and social aspects.Papers pertaining to human mobility, refugee assistance, heritage formation and preservation (i.e., of both new and existing residents), social cohesion, borderlands issues, historical transformation and maintenance of social space, new community formation and other topics on transnational mobility(ies) would find a welcome audience at this conference. Papers need not follow a particular methodological orthodoxy and may focus on one or more regions of the world.
9th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Development and Heritage: Present, Past, and Future
June 7 - June 10, 2018
Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
This conference builds on previous conferences on urban space and social life and seeks to explore contested issues that link development to (tangible and intangible) heritage. New construction and developments in and between rural and urban regions affect the preservation and creation of heritage. Issues of gentrification, infrastructure improvement, population growth, (im)migration, shifting geopolitical-economic order such as Brexit, Visegrad Group (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia) and so on create both contestation or conflict and social cohesion. As change and continuity in the built environment and natural heritage remain vibrant foci of research in the social sciences and humanities in terms of multiand interdisciplinary engagement, this conference brings together scholars and practitioners to explore these relationships and connections as part of human development.
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10th Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice Challenges to Diversity and Inclusion
June 14-17, 2019
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Building on previous conferences on Urban Space and Social Life, this conference seeks to explore a timely and a critical issue of our time: the rising trend of exclusion and a retreat from diversity within many countries. Given the rising levels of tension and sometimes violence within and among communities, cities, and nations due to recent political, economic, and social divisiveness around the world (anti-globalization, Trumpism, trade wars, Brexit, US-Canada-Mexico
Trade Agreement, climate change etc), our 10th conference brings together scholars and practitioners from all disciplines to provide scrutinize and analyze pressing issues related to inclusion and exclusion.
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